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thank you public television they're cross trains the hardcore unemployed to work an industry part of his job is finding the menu tray oh yeah come to me and i do

have the law when it had it fascinated to it we need everything it's been a success and that's going to be successful ne yo yo so that's what we have to do is

confident with his country's all about how the law and the only way i know to get is where we go to get pizza is they met he's a tech analyst at the region's most the one country in the world ninety percent of the people is afraid and i think we're going to get it mm mm mm mm to the cake that the cross is talking about the vast wealth of american industry continues to grow larger you know in nineteen sixty eight with riots and social unrest a continuing threat to its stability industry spurred by the government on the national alliance of businessmen

its purpose was to reach him to get out there is to find and offer steady jobs to the hardcore unemployed those who have never tasted a cake enjoyed by the ninety percent under the jobs program industry hires the hardcore and the government pays for their training of the westinghouse electric company such training has begun and it's long established plant in east pittsburgh law under by westinghouse bridge named in honor of the founder of the company won raves wherever electricity has flowed man's existence has been enriched and industry has grown this industry is growing but as mose existence of an alleged gunman street nicholas knows that people living in poverty don't go out looking for jobs they've been turned down to us in the

half year his program has been in operation has spent time in poor neighborhoods establishing himself as a man who fought for good jobs to those who qualify as hardcore which means having a specific low level of income and special handicaps in getting employment it's gorgeous and you know there was old and i was four hundred billion or job because i think you made the new leaders and it's going to take there you go there's seven thousand people

some of the people to know and so they are in their full of mixed emotions they want to believe but they can't get the rest of that been rejected by white america and many others who just because they don't have a dream we don't have any really believe it you know at this moment i try to let these people know that iranian and i'm not afraid and secure a faulty the movie joe wright house this is a really really

really want to say much the pain westinghouse high as twenty three men a month all the unskilled labor it feels it can absorb and its plant eleven thousand women around the payroll from the first day of training but the unaccustomed to the world of work in a nationwide program to help the hardcore four out of ten have dropped out during the first year compared to this national figure ross says trainees are doing well nine out of ten men trained since the program began are still working or a latino artie replays we are happy working here also are watching the one thing we're not a charitable organization meaning jobs available to you that every

job you go to really what the beep up to you to keep something by working in the black community the charges schedule but that's going to be true is new plan is going to be the most important factor in your lives there's one thing you understand why don't wish we understand this mr ross perry it's very important for the people people say that the whole way below camp of a war but i know definitely that is it would be the reporters people remember every time you coming here a timely punch that clock

because the caucus at times you'll get a i think the first day that these people who have other people are watching them because they're different and you can see you washington and joins us being unfamiliar with what normally happens in the cafeteria how you pick up the trade it was really all of the government employees i'm terry gross and that kind of cold the vehicles outside and swollen but that's the perfect situation like spiraled into potential to have to adjust to the people they are if you

like the only place to find someone who knew on june two good morning they can be altered his takes at the table

in his first year the national alliance a businessman has reported hiring more than a hundred and twenty five thousand hardcore unemployed critics maintain that companies are taking the cream of the unemployed who would be hired anyway through normal economic growth however hiring policies have decidedly changed at westinghouse and other companies the hardcore need no longer take entrance tests are present diplomas in the past such credentials of effectively screened out black people from factory jobs which often require minimal scale and very little formal education fb though their schooling has been seriously neglected the eye cues of most of the men fall within a very acceptable range our wonderful call they may be communicating with coworkers and supervisors where do the incumbent whom

that is true unless speaking yeah i don't like any he isn't rushing up in basic skills is attempted but the main emphasis on that that crosses on attitudes and daily discussions he asks them and to face reality about work quite people find themselves questions unanswered as you a question that would ensue truthfully we're speaking with egypt it is

because the cities you know department to really a minute to visit and it was so fast and you can make as has recently started a lot in four weeks' the movie within what is referred to as entry level jobs usually a sweeper it's pushing brooms and notoriously dead end job for blacks but it was to announce it's the first step to only employee employer there has had his job for about a month we

see that you were in a coma the power is chosen not to treat and does the us competing with other employees on the basis of

seniority at westinghouse as forman tells him when he asked you know about a new job or top management is interested in seeing the hardcore advance so that if there is a business recession and people must be laid off some hardcore employees will be able to remain the specter of a decline in business activity haunts the entire an ad program indeed the program would only be possible without the present continuing demand for labor and almost all industries i'm going to give you you are luigi need someone who's been on the show it does he's

right i'm going to work on and also makes the point where she got a job it makes the money it had to just go out and work and the peopling of a bar an issue out there the main thing that people are sweet dreams and b did they imagine that they'd give hugo i wanted it i wanted it would you go you're going to play an in joke and you know you could report that relationships with that people we let him play with the next two big areas of like a minute audio teaching like you've made your case in the battle that is the runaway wallace for president soundbite of all things like that but if people are going

to keep themselves every dude in quietly nobody around eleven by the same as billy give it but they didn't do and politically it could be contagious nice things you know in that you just said

johnny has a lot to do i don't think most of them in europe and in the span of like to see him to screw and the city gets a lot a better life and the legend says for chinese or frequently back at the training to them the most comfortable most congenial atmosphere in the planet the way training is the official word using department of labor contracts for what goes on and the democrats are actually his most important work is being there as counselor and friend to the newly hired who could easily feel as out of place in the plant as a white person

might feel in the ghetto but they recognized central problem confronting all programs is motivating the hardcore to stay on the job to be punctual reliable to accept middle class standards of working toward ras himself sets a standard a reliability all right or you have a net loss to the program goes back to living on relief or perhaps to some way of beating the system is or australia was just lost the jaw you really don't need our area like three terms of consumers twenty three towns along you know with you you know the situation that i believe is

because the jobless a house in a good image of life to be removed before it was a question that totally sure that i knew you want to work in and then same question on the market that probably back and you were young and though it didn't work and that i would like it if it can't guarantee they're going to disqualify to play soldier but i have to know before if you really give this is an effort which didn't really chop shari could live off of people mostly like to leave you at you week or so we could leverage itself be able to do something for you so you can give a new hat self control

they work three four five o'clock in the morning and beat at seven o'clock this is this his family is right here jesus jeans even then some fifty he won nearly as familiar to help you so is the show on monday it was a bonus trainees visiting supervisors rice's role was that of a middleman money money

that was back in the nineteen eighties samuel is a man he comes in with paper is really a first know the part there was no reference to worry or what he was i think i got to this point when he came in for an interview every man on the projector for a year has taken that will you know make all of wednesday's

john mann says this was a major river you know you know we know your man united as we were being harder or underprivileged inner probably has done a better job for me in this particular incident been a boy he replaced an individual not so called article five tournaments reverend said well i have no feeling whatsoever to the color of the individual i'm a sixty two year old man and don't naturally anyone under fifty i call full and there's no no terms of reference at all as to car

i realize that to the data itself has a connotation of black or short sleeved button it were colin so wait so you're right and one that i imagine that depending on what mood here and

it was in regards to the movie is do you have the same responsibilities it is we have to realize that we have to be able to overcome you know we react to a situation it's both this week in sports

this report well a trainee is asked to examine his attitudes over a period of a month before going to work in the plant a key figure in his future is former supervisor as aliyah day of sensitivity training at westinghouse coverage i've had three men assigned him from the hard core program and they have posed an attendant problem primarily and on their attitude has been what i normally get our man straight as a result their overall job performance has suffered and this has cost me time and money in response management has been reluctant to take front line forming a way from

production to prepare them for the kind of personal problems that actually do for their colony know earlier you were humans people with

color and it rose i am not a racist or phrases that are such commonly prejudices ins people were only performed up to accept a standard of the company is facing here is he is and why stop you know and i'll walk and that was sanded use orgasm and they want is signs of this is is that we all say oh or c williams also things about that nothing untoward or you know it was a twenty five year old true well sometime do they say that and this is a couple of the attention the other two paws on yahoo what has created

these days these experiences as original creations we just didn't win yes

please it is indeed and while all involved is my people and that well this is a hit only get it done and i thought that it's come down to several people there but this particular project needs to continue as he discusses with being at this point now i have to do it on a semi opportunity to sit down and talk you say that unions have been his main

business is a sound that irrelevant thank you you know sometimes i was really good so you know i'm so involved in so many and you know you actually see how it was emanuel yet to see that people a job that these things begin to go to these lengths which are either did or stomp around i or i am a former nigeria it is my responsibility follow on taobao hundred times a day talking about how are you by yourself all they are using went

through that yesterday's supreme judgments about you and nice email that you have humans in pre judges love each other so there's a chance that some things in a completely wrong image of possibilities and we do it i think that what is needed here is what we talk about in this respect each other and trust that you have to have a you can have distrust and he definitely stressed that much but what i think is a big and so i think it starts with

communication it's evolving into man or supervisor isn't sympathetic and understanding to have to what i am on his level and make him understand your problem and then what might happen you might become so if the pundits they say that he understands that not that he can be you know at seven o'clock get his snowmobile and drive by the way in arkansas are not like you know now we know what you go through we understand getting up at four thirty awarding the core well kate levin agrees that sixteen inside you and asked you to catch a bus

started laurie skip a little like the first bus hasn't come yet if it gets that bus get off that bus yard to another one and i guess the most depressing thing of all is when iran either one of those buses you see guys are you know work here for the coming year in cars or not we want to talk about today sooner or later if you don't have a car right now you're going to want to buy one you consumers are at your federal income taxes for awkward five only to taxpayers well the training costs the government an average of three thousand dollars per man three year it is estimated that the average treme will pay the governments investment back in less than two years so his own taxes and his absence from welfare rolls union leaders had been supporting the hardcore training programs on a watchful to keep in step with complaints of the membership but an experience i've heard that

with this program and show up will find that the people and i'm actually present the heart for a surge what they do resent them they are very outspoken and they're failing is that their sons or their daughters who simply because they went to school for one reason or another couldn't pass the test were ineligible to be hired and wearable it hardcore contaminant the heart without having had that this point we have people that work for years with his company and because they can't pass a test they win and this makes it very complicated pro shop stewards and show up and we're going to show up and talk to employers may wonder why their sons and their daughters cannot get it it's been forty years actor ron allows that are not disease that at that time when they pressed on that they're better than thirty seven years is a better than twenty five years

a widely read to listen to here about ten years when they have made an adequate i hadn't gotten out about four or five years with the west out before she met with us engineer who is and was working for the company at the time i was about twenty five years with the question of claustrophobia was a cell as they were was your family and today we have available almost one thousand in every hopeful twenty thousand dollars with no nineteen sixty eight car it's not completely paid for but with a well more than it would be to all i've been trying to get my son robert a job in what humans have been trying for jose padilla year as seemed like right now jeffrey williams even though i don't have a very good record with accompanying the only people that know me in my life and my integrity my

character does seem like right now that is not going to be available for the hardcore from what i understand it dr boston that even is really great or even eyes will have gotten through quite a bit of trouble with the law with the environment they live in and yet somebody is taken upon themselves to spend quite a bit of money to train them so that they can get jobs in these factories and yet i have a son robert the third novella april is gone to school as for some time in college my father has been placed a regime which you wrote

oh really was it the chairman of the board at westinghouse and i can't feel that this is an injustice to hire these hardcore people perhaps have a song for you to work someplace else or we walk for a job because these hardcore employed people knew little special treatment and i think we need a lot of our way to do to help them out even more might temporarily hurt someone else this problem needs to be solved i'm sure the problems we know most of these laws don't live years old i'll bring this whole you know most people are working with probably like it's always important social problems and this is one of those is that you can do something about some reason i think what we need employment wide area and

these programs too masters in touch with reactions to the program in august i don't think that we can solve the total community park we can only work with the people that you know we have jobs for a week higher seventy five percent of the people from the inner city it's not true that the home of the job of the hands on the nightmare and is a leader in the black community we're on them and i don't like

the feeling it does is a good program and what did he and that appeared to leave it now because of the people this nation this gunman hero and it's a way to bring it back to respond to the needs of black people now i think that i was notice any of that mike sutton the job of letting us will feel it is industry and this is going to be a you know this is an opportunity for me to get myself out they get out and open windows and loneliness and sense and westinghouse then they follow up to fill a firewall the firewall they serve a purpose i think so

dr king's death ash says that was useful for all but it gets played out you know it ran its course know is five under there it is plano is out in a million or one of the way because the wind he eluded those in the libyan open but is your education so now the thing to do is a good education a step in the fight and discussions with other militants are people more militant attorney explained this to me that you can have you graduated into crime

continues to be fbi agent you were oh yeah jolly good it's

really good mm hmm that was in house in a billion dollar corporation why is that after all these years it just now you know slow to living there with poetry for one month as alma mater the toga toga it as the keeper of the president people write novels you know to me not just an egg nothing to have any type of militancy about it whatsoever and now the lesser know myself for me if i have been through some things in cuba

i'm melissa block but because of the training period job openings of us presents his group leaders with the problem of selecting a man to feel it so why don't we do this why don't we take an individual in in the program and that has not been responding like he should just getting responsible see i react to a stick a person has had

some difficult of law has and hasn't done thomas lippman believes that this would work you think we could take a band that had difficulty in getting the opportunity and the responsibility in vegas would maybe they can overcome this show and we have confidence in it is as always thank you i think what

was particularly way and you know that i'm know that you with an uber had a day with more on the deal in a vote they've shown that they can overcome this thing he needs an opportunity where people have confidence in it no one has ever had a conversation before baez made about this and then gets invited part of this is the most important and validation of attendance and riots because in this area alone this was with

a ton of all kinds the wrong and that's why you know that's why i have you to discuss as well and i really think that that we get this man an opportunity in the week that you know that we have confidence in it might help him overcome his problems with whom same thing as society has done to us this family this is what the whole program is to be given a chance and i need your help because i need to help salvage the rest of the group were given a man an opportunity so it was really about something else in our society i dig it like it is they selected what the qualified people but it was years select that individual

does have difficulty just getting older because they fear helmets the mainstays of the ideas was well you know it's like the job and i mentioned the job he said to me he says

and huckabee's people not to leave our listeners to hear shows something i'd say yes this is working to a point but they take at least three four years to evaluate this type of work nico two things nothing to lose they used these kind

of close contact that they wish our program this environment of a school in the center was created is this in the shopping financial all respondents all of our people it's

amazing that training really totally trust me because i am part of the establishment like to improve or the extent that i have to do and a lot of violence that was you the executive in charge of roses program tom he's doing a final lunch and we think that those years ago and it shows when you realize there are any changes in attitudes that have to be made in a country where the local hero that generates wonderful whereas introverts just you're welcome

thank you we make each month ross seeks out twenty three men from among the ten thousand mostly black unemployed in pittsburgh he offers an escape hatch from the ghetto far more need to escape a faster rate can replace be fast enough or when other generation be forced to accept the way of the ghetto a fight for survival struggling with success

and still how many women to be consistently system that prefers them to remain outside despite the continuing frustration of black men in the united states or us finds many who are eager to work at real jobs like other americans he can only make room for a very few at a time right now when you're in a position to give me a break and the saudi deal is approved to sell that you know i can build muscle do you those

reasons this is what and that's true i mean you know part of the address of the event is the day room for you in this program starting tomorrow it has been this is

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